Lindgren wrote books for them and then went to work for them as an editor. It was rejected.” When it was accepted by a smaller press Ms. She had wanted the manuscript to be a gift for Karin’s 10th birthday, but she also sent it to a large publishing company. It wasn’t until a few years later that she finally put them on paper. Lindgren told the stories regularly at bedtime, she didn’t even bother writing them down. Certainly we wouldn’t have Pippi Longstocking, had it not been for the fact that Astrid Lindgren’s daughter got sick in 1941 and insisted on stories about Pippi.Īs The Christian Science Monitor puts it, “Pippi was a hit in the Lindgren household, but although Mrs. Without them we might not have half the books that grace our shelves today. The world of children’s literature owes a debt of gratitude to sick children everywhere. Whether Pippi’s scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic, or stirring things up at a fancy tea party, her flair for the outrageous always seems to lead to another adventure.” She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. The description of the book from the publisher reads, “The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Likewise its Swedish equivalent Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump. Though I don’t know how you’d be able to fit a name like Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking into a comic book balloon.
She can pick up horses and thieves and live on her own with a monkey.
Why the increased Pippi love? Well, as much as I’d love to credit the fact that she served as the inspiration for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ( true story) it may just be that Sweden’s best known children’s book import contained what I like to call the original child superhero. Originally located at #95 it has happily jumped up a square or two to #91. Pippi, I am pleased to report, is the first book on this list to move up instead of down. (“And she sleeps with her feet on the pillow!”) This is a child-sized tall tale. Pippi is someone we’d talk about as if we knew her. #91 Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (1950)
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